T’is the season of giving and Americans sure know how. The average American plans to spend $660 on Christmas gifts this year. An estimated $1 trillion will be spent by January 1st – for the first time in the history of U.S. business.
And it’s not just direct spending. Retailers will spend billions in advertising dollars to get us in the store or shopping online.
But if Christmas toy commercials and snow-filled movie trailers were replaced with political ads, then gleeful carolers would be replaced by shrill outrage. Anti-speech liberals would lament the rise of “money in politics,” turning to the government for a solution to the “problem” of Americans exercising their rights to share their ideas and seek support to spread them far and wide.
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The anti-speech movement is grounded in a single demeaning assumption: You little Who’s in Whosville are too stupid to think for yourselves. Their solution is for the government to become the Elf on the Shelf of political speech – always watching, ready to pounce if you’re naughty. As adults, we should be offended by liberal scolds who consider us incapable of thinking for ourselves.